A tourist area is an area that attracts visitors thanks to its characteristics.
A sector of a surface or land is called a zone . Tourist , for its part, is an adjective that refers to what is linked to tourism (the activity that a person carries out when they travel to a place other than their residence and spend the night there).
A tourist area , in this way, is a space that, due to its attractions , seduces a large number of visitors . An area can become touristy due to its natural beauty , its leisure infrastructure, its historic buildings or its events offer, to name a few possibilities.
The tourist area and other spaces
It is possible to differentiate between a residential area and a tourist area . While private homes predominate in the former, in the tourist area there are usually hotels , restaurants and other establishments for leisure and relaxation. You can also distinguish between a tourist area and an industrial area , where factories abound.
In a large city , it is common for tourist areas, residential areas and industrial areas to coexist. In a locality The majority of stable inhabitants reside in the eastern sector (residential zone), while in the western sector there is a high concentration of industries (industrial zone).
The Riviera Maya is an example of a tourist area.
The role of visitors
All this shows us that each tourist area can offer unique opportunities, or very different from the others, since the number of activities that are generally associated with tourism is very high. Although the common custom in most of these spaces is to take photographs to take home a souvenir of the landscapes and monuments visited during the trip , there are much more active ways to get involved with a tourist area.
Diving is perhaps one of the most popular disciplines in vacation destinations that have beautiful beaches. On the one hand there are tourists who have experience as divers and seek these cities with the specific objective of diving into new waters; But there is also a large percentage of people for whom diving is an experience that they have been looking forward to for years and they take advantage of their free time on vacation to take the first step.
On the other hand is cycling , which requires less skill than diving and is therefore suitable for a greater number of people. This does not mean that everyone can withstand the demand for energy and coordination that comes with traveling on "natural" roads, crossing relatively rocky stretches and facing potential rain or driving over puddles without losing balance and collapsing in the middle of the trip; However, the fear of water is a limitation that prevents many from enjoying swimming, even if they are in the necessary physical condition.
Expeditions are perhaps a midpoint between compulsive photography while we walk disoriented through a tourist area and the adrenaline of an extreme sport: although there are activities such as whale watching that also require a certain degree of physical effort, in this case to row , there are other more passive ones that focus on a more theoretical approach to the wealth of the place.
The diversity of tourist areas
As can be seen, tourist areas usually offer activities that combine the natural beauty of local landscapes with tours that require the supervision of a guide or instructor, so that tourists understand that they cannot venture out on their own, and that they feel the need to invest your money to enjoy the experiences to the fullest and have the help of expert people.
The Rivera Maya is an example of a tourist area. It is a strip of about 130 kilometers long that is located next to the Caribbean Sea , in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo . Towns such as Cancún , Playa del Carmen and Akumal are part of this tourist area.